Entries by Joshua Ostroff

This weekend the Googleplex in Silicon Valley will be hosting the Effective Altruism Global conference, a gathering of science tech philanthropists and entrepreneurs who want to use their business and book smarts to optimize the world. This year's speakers include the likes of Tesla and SpaceX...

In Vancouver they shame "grassholes," people who break lawn-watering restrictions despite the ongoing drought. Now over on the east coast, Halifax is about to bring the same sort of peer pressure to their recycling program.

If there's one toy that crosses all countries, cultures, age groups and genders, it's Lego. That's why it's so perfect that the Danish bricks will soon be able to be built onto children's prosthetic limbs – and build up their self-confidence at the same time.

Ever since hip hop started out in the parks of New York's South Bronx four decades ago, the culture has been seen by some as a corrupter of youth. This, despite the fact that the music developed as a means of bringing together a community...

The internet, or rather the older, whiter portion of the internet, erupted in anger this week when it was revealed that the world's biggest music star, Kanye West, would be performing at the Pan Am Games closing ceremonies in Toronto.

"I've always known that there wouldn't be a cure for cerebral palsy because it’s something you're born with. I knew there wasn't going to be a pill, and I'd gotten over that pretty early. I understood that was the reality," says Tom Garside, 25.

Buffy Sainte-Marie, adorned in feathers, beads and a bad-ass black leather jacket, is smiling brightly in a sky-scraping hotel suite facing the CN Tower. The charismatic, how-could-she-be-74-years-old Cree singer-songwriter and political activist is a far ways from Saskatchewan’s Qu'Appelle Valley where she was raised. And far from the Kauai goat...

This article is part of What's Working, a global HuffPost editorial initiative to go beyond "If it bleeds, it leads" and double-down on our coverage of people coming up with solutions to the very real challenges we face.

This article is part of What's Working, a global HuffPost editorial initiative to go beyond "If it bleeds, it leads" and double-down on our coverage of people coming up with solutions to the very real challenges we face.

Cree singer-songwriter and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie has been an indigenous...

The global fight against hunger is less about food and more about waste with one-third of the world's food going uneaten every year. Now France has a new weapon with a law forcing grocery stores to give away — rather than throw away — their unsold food.

This article is part of What's Working, a global HuffPost editorial initiative to go beyond "If it bleeds, it leads" and double-down on our coverage of people coming up with solutions to the very real challenges we face.

Quinn Maloney-Tavares and Polly Hamilton are 12, live in Ottawa and are BFFs. They're also two of the country's youngest gay rights activists, and for the past six months have been trying to establish Canada's first gay-straight alliance club at a Catholic elementary...